Venus & Adonis
by Shakespeare, William
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Rochester, New York: The Printing House of Leo Hart, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Kent, Rockwell. Clay cloth with gilt lettering, 8vo, 80 pages, illustrated throughout by Rockwell Kent; head and tail of spine turned in, sweet inscription on front free endpaper, pages age toned; dust jacket quite toned, spine has been repaired with scotch tape on interior and exterior, spine itself is grubby, tape present on creases and corners as well, now protected in mylar cover. A handsome copy of this first release of Shakespeare's Venus & Adonis illustrated by Rockwell Kent that was not a limited edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Crooked House Books & Paper (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- CS00406
- Title
- Venus & Adonis
- Author
- Shakespeare, William
- Illustrator
- Kent, Rockwell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Printing House of Leo Hart
- Place of Publication
- Rochester, New York
- Date Published
- 1934
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ROCKWELL KENT CLASSICS SHAKESPEARE AMERICAN MODERNIST VINTAGE
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About the Seller
Crooked House Books & Paper
Biblio member since 2005
Portland, Oregon
About Crooked House Books & Paper
Welcome to the Crooked House, a one-of-a-kind bookstore in Portland, Oregon. Specializing in the beautiful and unusual: books by, for and about women, cookery, domestic science, decorative publishers bindings, weird how-to books and ephemera, 1920s-30s women's magazines, Modern Library, and more.
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- New
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- Tail
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- Gilt
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